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Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in America : reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the United States government, with notes and an introduction by the artist (1918)

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia and London : J.B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 142

An illustration from Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in America : reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the United States government, with notes and an introduction by the artist, 1918, leaf 142
he Guns mounted on their carriages, by the greatgantry, were fired, passing through wires hung fromscreens, to test their velocity. One thing that interestedme, standing behind the guns—interested me too much,really—was, that there was no smoke, save that which cameout of the hole where the shells… … ^^■^t 1^ V¥;#X.^hVi»^S- %W: -=K ^ XXXIIITHE RIVETERS XXXIII THE RIVETERS WHAT perpendicular cathedral is as full of mysteryas this shop. I know of none and I know most ofthem, and when the fires glow on the work altar, and thegreat jaws pierce and rivet the boiler plates, then is heardthe Hymn of…

World War, 1914-1918 · Ships in art · Lithography, American

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